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Brian Guy Bayles
September 23, 1974~August 8, 2008
Brian Guy Bayles, beloved husband, father, brother, friend, and son of Linda and Lloyd Bayles of Blanding, UT, passed away on August 8, 2008.
He was born in Tucson, AZ on September 23, 1974. He came home to an older sister, Shelly, and two brothers, Tyler Grant, and Kedric Lloyd. He was a bright, happy little guy, and making friends was easy for him. Thus began 33+ years of fun and exasperation.
He attended Blanding Elementary School, Albert R. Middle School, and San Juan High School.
He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Toronto, Ontario West Mission, from 1994 to 1996.
Upon returning home, he attended the College of Eastern Utah - San Juan Campus, where he received an associates degree as well as a CDL.
While he was attending CEU he was called to be the Institute President. While serving in this capacity, he met his future wife Suzie Clarke.
It was love at first sight for him. He was absolutely smitten with her and couldn't rest until he married her. They were married in the Mount Timpanogos Temple in American Fork, UT on August 14, 1998. Oh what joy she has brought to him and our family.
They have four beautiful children: Bree, 8, Brock, 6, Elli, 4, and Gracie, 2.
Brian spent all his life in this little community and had a fierce loyalty and passion for his family, community, church, people (especially the youth) and this land. He loved the mountains and the out of doors.
He couldn't carry a tune in a brass bucket, but that never slowed him down. He would sing at the top of his lungs, and his enthusiasm was a joy to us. Like everything else he did, he did it with great gusto and gave it all he had.
Brian was an avid scouter. He started going with his dad who was the scoutmaster when he was only five years old. For the next ten years, he attended dozens of scout camps, as well as several 50-mile hikes.
He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, earned over 30 badges and several palms. He attended Wood badge in 2006. He kept things lively in the woods.
Brian had a passionate and fierce loyalty to family. He was a loyal friend. He was passionate about right and wrong. If he thought something was wrong, he would set out that very minute to set it straight.
He was a man of courage and wasn't afraid to stand up for what he believed was right. Brian had a quick wit and a great sense of humor. He loved to laugh and tease.
He had a strong work ethic, He loved to work. He loved to be busy.
Brian drove truck for the Sysco food company for eight years. In February, 2008, he and Suzie bought the Patio Drive In. He absolutely loved this new adventure. He loved being able to take his kids to work with him and they looked forward to, and loved going with him.
He loved sharing this venture with Suzie. He loved spending time there visiting with many of you.
Brian was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as young men's president, in various scouting callings and in the Blanding 6th ward bishopric for six years. He also served on the Blanding City Council for seven and a half years.
Brian is survived by his wife and children, parents, siblings, and countless friends. He will be greatly missed by all of us who knew him.
Services were held Thursday, August 14, 2008 and he was laid to rest in the Blanding City Cemetery immediately following the services.
Card of thanks
To all of our dear, dear friends, loved ones, and friends of Brian,
Thank you all so very, very much for the generous outpouring of love and support you have so freely given us. Thank you for gathering us up in your warm and caring arms and sharing our pain.
Thanks to all of you who have sent delicious comfort food, cards, letters, and flowers. Thank you for your many acts of kindness and service; for your sincere expressions of sympathy. Thank you for your prayers.
Thanks to Danny Palmer for the wonderful work he does and the tremendous service he provides this community.
Thanks to our Relief Society, and Bishopric for the countless hours of service they have provided for us and the other families in our ward.
Thanks to Bill Boyle, and the staff at the San Juan Record, and Becky and Neil Joslin of the Panorama for the wonderful service they provide in printing the obituaries and notes of thanks.
This is such an amazing community. We truly stand all amazed at all the good you do. There are no words to adequately express our gratitude and the appreciation we feel for you.
A good friend of our Brian's offered to make a book of memories of Brian for Suzie and their little ones who are too young to remember their dad.
If you have any fond memory, funny story, character trait, picture/photo, or experience relevant to Brian, would you please take just a few minutes to write them down and e-mail them to me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
I will save them into a folder and when we have gathered them all, I will e-mail them to him and he will make books for Suzie and their little ones. What a wonderful generous offer.
I will collect these until September 15, at which time I will send them on to him. These memories will only grow more dear with time and we would so much appreciate your help with this project.
Thank you, thank you so much for your love, friendship and support.
The family of Brian and Lloyd Harris Bayles
Suzie, Bree, Brock, Elli, Gracie, Linda, Lloyd, Shelly, Tyler, Kedric
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We would like to thank everyone for doing so much to help during these last few weeks. The love and support shown in so many ways has been so overwhelming and so very appreciated. From firewood, lawn mowing, meals, visits, cards and especially prayers. We could not have survived this alone. We are so grateful to live in such a wonderful community. We love you all and thank you from the bottom of our hearts and pray for God's blessings to shine on each of you as well. Thank you for loving us, thank you for loving our Brian.
With deepest thanks and sincerity,
Suzie, Abrienne, Brock, Elli, and Gracie Bayles
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text: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > Seeing is believing. There are lots of good papers out there on > concurrency strategies for systems with vast numbers of sockets to > manage, and there is no doubt what the answer is -- threads suck > compared to events, full stop. Event systems scale linearly for far > longer. Sure, but: > It depends. If you're doing something where there is going to be one > socket talking to the system a tiny percentage of the time, why would > you bother building an event driven server? If you're building Or many sockets, but with a task granularity that makes your possibly megaclock/millisecond task switching overhead irrelevant. I'd have to rebuild and rerun lmbench to get an accurate measure of the current context switch time, but milliseconds seems far too long. That sounds like the inverse of the timeslice, not the actual CS time, which I'm pretty sure has been MICROseconds, not milliseconds, since back in the 2.0 kernel on e.g. 200 MHz hardware. My laptop is clocking over 2000 CS's/second sitting nearly idle -- that's just the "noise" of the system's normal interactive single user function, and this when its clock is at its idling 800 MHz (out of 2.5 GHz). On the physics department home directory (NFS) server I'm clocking only 7000-7500 CS/sec at a load average of 0.3 (dual core opteron at 2.8 GHz). Since nfsstat doesn't seem to do rates yet (and has int counters instead of long long uints, grrr) it is a bit difficult to see exactly what this is derived from in real time as far as load goes, but almost all of it seems to be the processing of interrupts, as in the interrupt count and the context switch count go in close parallel. Now, I'm trying to understand the advantage you describe, so bear with me. See what you think of the following: The kernel processes interrupts as efficiently as possible, with upper half and lower half handlers, but either one requires that the CPU stop userspace tasks and load up the kernel's interrupt handler, which requires moving in and out of kernel mode. We aren't going to quibble about a factor of two here and I think that this is well within a factor of two of a context switch time as most of the state of the CPU still has to be saved so I'm calling it a CS even if it is maybe 80% of a CS as far as time goes, depending on how badly one is thrashing the caches. Network based requests are associated with packets from different sources; packets require interrupts to process, interrupts from distinct sources require context switches to process (do they not? -- I'm not really sure here but I recall seeing context switch counts generally rise roughly linearly with interrupt rates even on single threaded network apps) so I would EXPECT the context switch load imposed by a network app to be within a LINEAR factor of two to four independent of whether it was run as a fork or run via events with one exception, described below. I'm estimating the load as packet arrives (I,CS), app gets CPU (CS), select on FD triggers it's "second stage interrupt/packet handler" which computes a result and writes to the network (I,CS), causes the process to block on select, kernel does next task (CS). So I count something like two interrupts and four context switches per network transaction for a single, single threaded network server application handling a single, single packet request with a single, single packet reply. If it has to go to disk, add at least one interrupt/context switch. So it is four or five context switches, some of which may be lighter weight than others, and presumes that the process handling the connection already exists. If the process was created by a fork or as a thread, there is technical stuff about whether it is a kernel thread (expensive) or user thread (much lighter weight, in fact, much more like a procedure call since the forked processes share a memory space and presumably do NOT need to actually save state when switching between them). They still might require a large chunk of a CS time to switch between them because I don't know how the kernel task switcher manages select statements on the entire cluster of children associated with the toplevel parent -- if it sweeps through them without changing context there is one level of overhead, if it fully changes context there is another, but again I think we're talking 10-20% differences. Now, if it is a SINGLE process with umpty open file descriptors and an event loop that uses SOME system call -- and I don't quite understand how a userspace library can do anything but use the same systems calls I could implement in my own code to check for data to be read on a FD, e.g. select or some sort of non-blocking IO poll -- each preexisting, persistent connection (open FD) requires at least 2-3 of the I/CS pairs in order to handle a request. In other words, it saves the CS associated with switching the toplevel task (and permits the kernel to allocate timeslices to its task list with a larger granularity, saving the cost of going in/out of kernel mode to initiate the task/context switch). This saves around two CS out of four or five, a factor of around two improvement. Not that exciting, really. The place where you get really nailed by forks or threads is in their creation. Creating a process is very expensive, a couple of orders of magnitude more expensive than switching processes, and yeah, even order ms. So if you are handling NON-persistent connections -- typical webserver behavior: make a connection, send a request for a file, receive the file requested, break the connection -- handling this with a unique fork or thread per request is absolute suicide. So there a sensible strategy is to pre-initiate enough threads to be able to handle the incoming request stream round-robin, so that as each thread takes a request, processes it, and resumes listening for the next request. This requires the overhead of creating a FD (inevitable for each connection), dealing with the interrupt/CSs required to process the request and deliver the data, then close/free the FD. If the number of daemons required to process connections at incoming saturation is small enough that the overhead associated with processing the task queue doesn't get out of hand, this should scale very nearly as well as event processing, especially if the daemons are a common fork and share an address space. The last question is just how efficiently the kernel processes many blocked processes. Here I don't know the answer, and before looking it up I'll post the question here where probably, somebody does;-) If the connections are PERSISTENT -- e.g. imap connections forked by a mail server for mail clients that connect and stay connected for hours or days -- then as a general rule there will be no I/O waiting on the connections because humans type or click slowly and erratically, mostly a poissonian load distribution. If the kernel has a way of flagging applications that are blocked on a select on an FD without doing an actual context switch into the application, the scheduler can rip through all the blocked tasks without a CS per task, at an overhead rate within a CS or two per ACTIVE task (one where there IS I/O waiting) of the hyperefficient event-driven server that basically stays on CPU except for when the CPU goes back to the kernel anyway to handle the packet stream during interrupts and to advance the timer and so on. I don't KNOW if the kernel manages runnable or blocked at quite this level -- it does seem that there are fields in the task process table that flag it, though, so I'd guess that it does. It seems pretty natural to skip blocked processes without an actual CS in and out just to determine that they are blocked, since many processes spend a lot of time waiting on I/O that can take ms to unblock (e.g. non-cached disk I/O). So I'm not certain that having a large number of idle, blocked processes (waiting on I/O on a FD with a select, for example) is a problem with context switches per se. > something to serve files to 20,000 client machines over persistent TCP > connections and the network interface is going to be saturated, hell > yes, you should never use 20,000 threads for that, write the thing > event driven or you'll die. Here there are a couple of things. One is that 20K processes MIGHT take 20K context switches just to see if they are blocked on I/O. If they do, then you are definitely dead. 20K processes also at the very least require 20K entries in the kernel process table, and even looping over them in the scheduler to check for an I/O flag with no CS is going to start to take time and eat a rather large block of memory and maybe even thrash the cache. So I absolutely agree, 20K mostly-idle processes on a running system -- even a multicore with lots of memory -- is a bad idea even if they are NOT processing network requests. Fortunately, this is so obvious that I don't think anybody sane would ever try to do this. Second, 20K NON-persistent connections on an e.g. webserver would be absolute insanity, as it adds the thread creation/destruction overhead to the cost of processing the single-message-per-connection interrupts. It just wouldn't work, so people wouldn't do that. IIRC there were a few daemons that did that back in the 80's (when I was managing Suns) and there were rules of thumb on running them. "Don't" is the one I recall, at least if one had more than a handful of hosts connecting. Running 10-20 parallel daemons might work, and people do that -- httpd, nfsd. Running an event driven server daemon (or parallel/network application) would work, and people do that -- pvmd does that, I believe. Which one works the best? I'm perfectly happy to believe that the event driven server could manage roughly twice as many make/break single message connections as a pile of daemons, if the processes aren't bottlenecked somewhere other than at interrupt/context switches. If we assume that at CS takes order of 1-10 usec on a modern system, and it takes a SMALLER amount of time to do the processing associated with a request, then you'll get the advantage. If each request takes (say) order of 100 usec to handle, then you'll be bottlenecked at less than 10,000 requests per second anyway, and I don't think that you'd see any advantage at all, although this depends strongly on whether or not one can block all the daemons somewhere OTHER than the network. The question then is -- what kind of traffic is e.g. an NFS server or a mail server as opposed to a web server? NFS service requires (typically) at least an fstat per file, and may or may not require physical disk access with millisecond scale latencies. Caching reduces this by orders of magnitude, but some patterns of access (especially write access or a nasty mix of many small requests -- latency bound disk accesses) don't necessarily cache well. It is not at all clear, then, that an event driven NFS server would ultimately scale out better than a small pile of NFS daemons as the bottleneck could easily end up being the disk, not the context switch or interrupt burden associated with the network. Mail servers ditto, as they too are basically file servers, but ones for which caching is of little or no advantage. Event driven servers might get you the ability to support as much as a factor of two more connections without dying, but it is more likely that other bottlenecks would kill your performance at about the same number of connections either way. To bring the whole thing around OT again, a very reasonable question is what kind of application one is likely to encounter in parallel computing and which of the three models discussed (forking per connection, forking a pile of daemons to handle connections round robin, single server/daemon handling a table of FDs) is likely to be best. I'd argue that in the case of parallel computing it is ALMOST completely irrelevant -- all three would work well. If one starts up a single e.g. pvmd or lamd, which forks off connected parallel applications on request, then typically there will a) only be roughly 1 such fork per core per system, because the system will run maximally efficiently if it can just keep streaming memory streaming in and out of L1 and L2; b) they will have a long lifetime, so the cost of the fork itself is irrelevant -- a ms out of hours to days of computing; c) internally the applications are already written to be event driven, in the sense that they maintain their own tables of FDs and manage I/O either at the level of the toplevel daemons (who then provide it as streams to the applications) or within the applications themselves via library calls and structures. I THINK PVM is more the former model and MPI the latter, but there are many MPIs. For other associated cluster stuff -- a scheduler daemon, an information daemon such as xmlsysd in wulfstat -- forking vs non-forking for persistent connections (ones likely to last longer than minutes) is likely to be irrelevantly different. Again, pay the ms to create the fork, pay 6 interrupt/context switches instead of 4 or 5 per requested service with a marginal cost of maybe 10 usec, and unless one is absolutely hammering the daemon and the work done by the daemon has absolutely terrible granularity (so it is only DOING order of 10 or 100 usec of work per return) it is pretty ignorable, especially on a system that is PRESUMABLY spending 99% of its time computing and the daemon is basically handling out of band task monitoring or control services. > It is all about the right tool for the job. Apps that are all about > massive concurrent communication need events. Apps that are about very > little concurrent communication probably don't need them. Absolutely, but do they need libevents, or do they simply need to be sensibly written to manage a table of fds and selects or nonblocking polls? I've grabbed the source for libevents and am looking through it, but again, it seems to me that it is limited to using the systems calls the kernel provides to handle I/O on open FDs, and if so the main reason to use a library rather than the calls directly is ease of coding, not necessarily efficiency. Usually the code would be more efficient if you did the same thing(s) inline, would it not? The one thing I completely agree with is that one absolutely must remain aware of the high cost of creating and destroying threads/processes. Forking is expensive, and forking to handle a high-volume stream of transient connections is dumb. So dumb that it doesn't work, so nobody does this, I think. At least, not for long. > More the former, not the latter. Event driven programming typically > uses registered callbacks that are triggered by a central "Event Loop" > when events happen. In such a system, one never blocks for anything -- > all activity is performed in callbacks, and one simply returns from a > callback if one can't proceed further. The programming paradigm is > quite alien to most people. Fair enough, because most people don't write heavily parallel applications (which includes applications with many parallel I/O streams, not just HPC). But people who do fairly quickly learn to work out the scaling and overhead, do they not, at least "well enough" to achieve some level of performance? Otherwise the applications just fail to work and people don't use them. Evolution in action...;-) This has been a very informative discussion so far, at least for me. Even if my estimates above are all completely out of line and ignore some key thing, all that means is I'll learn even more. The one thing that I wish were written with some sort of internal scheduler/kernel and event mechanism from the beginning is X. It has its own event loop, but event-driven callbacks all block -- there is no internal task parallelism. It is a complete PITA to write an X application that runs a thread continuously but doesn't block the operation of the GUI -- one has to handle state information, use a separate thread, or invert all sorts of things from the normal X paradigm of click and callback. That is, most X apps are written to be serial and X itself is designed to support serial operation, but INTERESTING X apps are parallel, where the UI-linked I/O channels have to be processed "independently" within the X event loop while a separate thread is doing a task loop of interesting work. AFAIK, X only supports its own internal event loop and has horrible kludges to get the illusion of task parallelism unless one just forks a separate thread for the running "work" process and establishes shared state stuctures and so on so that the UI callbacks can safely affect work going on in the work-loop thread without blocking it. > I'd read the libevent man page to get a vague introduction. There doesn't seem to be one in the source tarball I downloaded. Only event.3 and evdns.3, neither of which are terribly informative. In fact, the documentation sucks. There is more space on the website devoted to pictures of good vs terrible scaling with/without libevent than there is documentation of how it works or how to use it, and of course it is difficult to know if the figures are straw men or fair comparisons. There are a few chunks of sample code in samples. I'll take a look and see what I can see when I have time. I'm working on an X-based GUI-controlled application and do have a forking daemon (xmlsysd) that so far seems to work fine at the level of traffic it was designed for and is likely bottlenecked someplace other than CSs long before they become a problem, but this conversation has convinced me that I could rewrite at least the latter in a way that is more efficient even if I do leave it forking per connection (or using xinetd, as it usually does now:-). It is a monitoring daemon, and is fairly lightweight now because one doesn't want to spend resources watching a cluster spend resources. If I redesigned it along lines suggested by the analysis above, I could permit it to manage many more connections with one part of its work accomplished with roughly constant overhead, where now the overhead associated with that work scales linearly with the number of connections. rgb > > > -- Robert G. 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Salesforce Chatter Roots Out Experts
Salesforce.com adds social intelligence to Chatter with Topics and Expertise graph tools. This sounds a lot like what knowledge management promised to be -- but wasn't.
April 4, 2013
Last month Salesforce.com added functionality to Chatter on mobile platforms; this month the company is bolstering the platform itself with new social intelligence features -- namely, Chatter Topics and Expertise, which will enable companies to more easily connect with experts and find related resources based on topics of interest.
According to the company, Chatter Topics and Expertise will analyze and categorize structured and unstructured information within the Salesforce.com platform, connecting related experts, files, groups and other information on a single topic page.
This sounds a lot like what knowledge management promised to be -- but wasn't -- decades ago, said Denis Pombriant, managing principal, founder and managing principal of Beagle Research Group. "In some ways this announcement seems like the culmination of knowledge management from almost two decades ago," he said. "KM was supposed to enable companies to expose everything that was known either in files or in people's heads, but it had none of the technology needed to get the job done. But this confluence of multiple tools that employ social concepts gets us at least part of the way there."
[ Does your company encourage employees to use social tools? Read 10 Ways To Foster Effective Social Employees. ]
Chatter Topics and Expertise build on users' social and business "graphs," according to Salesforce.com. A graph in the context of social networking is a map of what and who people are interested in, as well as how all of these people and things are connected. Facebook Graph Search is based on this idea as well.
In a statement, Saleforce.com suggested how Topics and Expertise might be used: "For example, a new hire will be able to discover topic pages and groups to help her become productive within a few hours versus days or weeks." The statement continued, "Additionally, any employee will be able to identify and connect with experts in real-time, whether it is a product expert who provides insight into a development roadmap, or an influencer who drives thought leadership. Now, every employee can contribute, discover and connect like never before."
The ability to identify expertise is core to social business applications, and indeed, it's not new for Chatter. Topics and Expertise seem to up the ante, however, by automating some of that connectivity.
This, says Pombriant, illustrates the increasing need -- and growing ability -- for companies to exploit the data present in their people and systems.
"It's no secret that we are rapidly moving from an information paradigm to a knowledge-based one," he said. "That means people don't simply leverage what they know against what someone doesn't know -- a typical arbitrage situation. It does mean that people need to access and consolidate information to synthesize it into knowledge that can help move a company to make better decisions faster. This can't be done by corporate edict; it has to be done at the grassroots level of the organization in all of the decisions people make daily."
How would you rate your organization's ability to connect people with the information they need to do their job -- whether they know they need the information or not? Do you think it's a function of technology? Please let us know in the comments section below.
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Icons Open the Window to Heaven
'Visual Scripture' reflects the beauty of the faith. Nov. 6 issue feature.
Even in Catholic circles, icons suffer from insufficient understanding. These images are often regarded as a mere style of art from Eastern Orthodox churches. What they are, however, are glimpses into eternity with roots in antiquity.
The word "icon" comes from the Greek word eikon, which means "image." The artist (referred to as an iconographer) is said to "write" an icon because it is intended to be visual Scripture. The icon is most often a painting, but it can also be carved, cast in metal or done as a mosaic. It usually portrays Jesus, an angel or a saint.
According to iconographer Marek Czarnecki, "It's a vision of reality that uses art to open the window to heaven." His own journey into iconography began in 1990, when his father promised a parish priest at St. Stanislaus Church in Bristol, Conn., that his son would paint the famous Our Lady of Czestochowa image. This ancient Polish icon is mentioned in records dating back to the 1300s.
Although Czarnecki was not interested in religion at the time, he honored his father's wishes. Seeing people pray in front of the image filled him with awe — and inspired him to devote his work to icons and revisit his own faith. Now, he specializes in iconography at his studio in Connecticut (SeraphicRestorations.com). It was his icon of Jesus representing the priesthood that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops used as their symbol for the Year for Priests in 2009-2010.
"I don't sign my work because an icon must be transparent; the artist should not get in the way," he said. Part of the artist's transparency is accessing the spiritual through prayer and fasting during the creative process, he explained, because the images are considered to be sacred objects. Some are even believed to be miraculous, such as the Our Lady of Czestochowa icon.
Icons use a language all their own to reveal a deeper meaning. The invisible spiritual dimension is conveyed through symbols. Jesus always has a cross in his halo. Mary has three stars on her garments to show she was a virgin before, during and after the birth of Christ. A profile image means those depicted have not reached salvation yet, such as Judas in the Last Supper or a shepherd in the Nativity. Saints, on the other hand, face forward, as do images of Jesus, because we will see him face to face in heaven. Icons of Christ and other holy images remind the viewers to reflect on the lives and virtues of those depicted.
Nick Markell of Hugo, Minn., who has been an iconographer for 20 years, explained, "Signs and symbols were especially important in the early Church, when most people could not read." For a time, however, religious art was questioned. "There was a moment in the Church when images were questioned as idolatry," said Markell. "The second Council of Nicaea (787) established that they were a means by which God's grace comes into our life."
In Pope John Paul II's 1999 "Letter to Artists," the late Holy Father explained that decision: "The decisive argument to which the bishops appealed in order to settle the controversy was the mystery of the Incarnation: If the Son of God had come into the world of visible realities — his humanity building a bridge between the visible and the invisible — then, by analogy, a representation of the mystery could be used, within the logic of signs, as a sensory evocation of the mystery. The icon is venerated not for its own sake, but points beyond to the subject which it represents."
Iconography became a distinct art so it would not be confused with idolatry. "Icon is to art what Bible is to literature. It depicts the same truth in a visual way," explained Markell.
Although icons are rooted in Church history, when the East and West parted, icons went East. The West kept religious art but not icons, and, during the '70s, even that was often removed from churches. In The Spirit of the Liturgy, Pope Benedict XVI stated that it was a misunderstanding of Vatican II to remove art: "Images of beauty, in which the mystery of the invisible God becomes visible, are an essential part of Christian worship." He referred to icons as normative in the Eastern and Orthodox churches and said they should also become normative in the West. In line with Benedict's desire, Markell stated that the West is developing an interest in icons.
In February of this year, an icon of the Holy Family commissioned to Markell (NicholasMarkell.com) was unveiled in the gathering space at Spirit of Life Catholic Church in Mandan, N.D.
Father Chad Gion, the pastor, set the area around the icon up as a shrine with kneelers and candles. "It offers people respite from the things of this world, as they look upon the Holy Family, he said. "Just like reading the Bible can be a personal experience, praying with an icon can be the exact same thing."
Markell has been commissioned to write another larger icon of the crucifix, which will hang over the church altar.
Father Gion said, "When I made my interest known, people came forward with donations. There is a desire in the hearts of people for beauty in their churches."
According to both Markell and Czarnecki, much of the growing interest in icons is from the laity.
Kim Heilman of Bismarck, N.D., attributes her love of icons to art history classes at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. "If you are studying art history, you are studying the Church," she said. "I was not a practicing Catholic back then, but I was hooked on art, and, through it, I became hooked on the Church."
When Kim and her husband, Shawn, planned a Sacred Heart enthronement ceremony in their home, they turned to art. "Shawn and I wanted something really beautiful, so we commissioned an iconic image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus," she said, choosing Czarnecki to write their icon.
"That is where our family prays every night," she said. "When I look at the image, it helps to lift me out of my world of day-to-day responsibilities and focus on Christ."
Patti Maguire Armstrong writes from Bismark, North Dakota.


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A predictable life isn't all that bad. You know what to expect, you're comfortable in the routine and it works to rarely step outside of something that you know is always going to be there. You have Tacos on Tuesday, you do laundry every Wednesday whether you want to or not and the floors get cleaned on Sunday. Predictability makes for less stress, without a doubt.
Yet, life isn't always in alignment with keeping it predictable. Our day to day existence can be thrown all over the map without a lot of effort, and having the ease of the expected sometimes can make those erratic days feel less of a burden. The same can be said about our meals too. I love variety in my kitchen, and will highlight the best of those recipes here for you to enjoy as well, but in addition to our stretching in the foods that we eat, we do a lot of repeats too; we make a batch of burgers, bake some chicken, cook up a pan of enchiladas, or jambalaya or stir up a large pot of different soups. I made a gorgeous pork tenderloin the other day, slathered in the roasted garlic mustard I made as Christmas gifts. It was lovely, but it was predictable, especially with the roasted potatoes on the side.
And in going out for a meal, I love to experiment, to try out restaurants especially that serve ethnic cuisine I don't to make at home. I love Indian food, and often leave it to the experts to create. Thai food, Chinese and Mexican are other cuisines I love to sample from restaurants. Sometimes they're predictable, but I try to choose menu items that are unfamiliar so that I can experiment with other flavors and the different aspects of the culture.
But then, there are those times when I just want something simple, something I know will deliver satisfaction and consistency, and stopping in Panera will give me just that.
It's not fancy, or lavish. It's comforting and simple. Anyone can go there, from a 2-year old to the elders in your family. The selections are easy and familiar. You can count on the soups being warm and soothing, with a nice chunk of bread to dunk in, with a wide variety of good sandwiches and salads to satisfy everyone's tastes. Their line of artisan breads are crackly on the outside, soft on the inside, and if baked goods and coffee are your thing, Panera offers lots of rich decadent options along with plenty of chewy bagels, and a bottomless cup of java to help you through the morning. WiFi is also available, and the stores are comfortable, and usually quiet enough for a few hours of work.
Just recently on a chilly morning following church, Mike and I stopped in for some soup, and soon a bowl of their Creamy Tomato Soup was sitting in front of me, with a delicious Asiago cheese bagel on the side, to pull through the steaming bowl. The taste reminded me of being a kid, sitting at my Mom's kitchen table with tomato soup and a grilled cheese, and I loved how it gave me that sense of comfort. There's really nothing more to it than that; it's predictable and widely available and always there, something you can count on.
DISCLAIMER: I was compensated for this post and my meal was complementary. All thoughts, opinions and feedback in this post are my own and were not influenced by Panera or their affiliates in any way.


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Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure.
One Facebook survey scam recently analyzed by F-Secure uses malicious browser extensions to hijack Facebook accounts and post spam messages on their walls.
The messages contain Bit.ly shortened links that appear to lead to interesting videos. However, in reality they point to redirect scripts hosted on Amazon's S3 service that send victims to a fake Facebook page.
The rogue page displays a video player image, which when clicked, prompts a window asking users to participate in a survey. Scammers earn money through affiliate marketing schemes for every user who agrees to participate.
The scam is distributed through fake extensions for Google Chrome and Firefox that are passed to victims as YouTube player updates. Users are asked to download and install these in order to watch the videos they clicked on.
According to F-Secure's chief research officer, Mikko Hypponen, scammers prefer to redirect users through links on Amazon's cloud because its domain name and corresponding IP addresses have a high trust rating. This increases their chances of tricking malicious URL filters like those used by Bit.ly or Facebook.
While the use of Amazon S3 links in Facebook scams is a relatively new technique, the hosting of malware on the popular cloud service is not a new practice. The Amazon S3 hosting service is not very expensive and a lot of cybercriminals are probably able to afford it.
However, some of them prefer to steal login credentials from existing Amazon customers and abuse their accounts, Hypponen said. "Some of the malcreants exclusively use accounts belonging to other people. Others create new accounts with stolen credit cards. Some create valid accounts and pay for them."


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WASHINGTON (AP) — No sooner did the Federal Reserve unveil a bold plan Thursday to juice the U.S. economy than it dangled the prospect of doing even more.
Investors celebrated by sending stock prices jumping.
Economists were less impressed. Many wondered how much the Fed's action would help.
Chairman Ben Bernanke himself urged everyone to keep expectations in check.
"I personally don't think that it's going to solve the problem," Bernanke said at a news conference. "But I do think it has enough force to help nudge the economy in the right direction."
The Fed's move to buy $40 billion a month in mortgage bonds — the heart of its plan — might do little to spur borrowing and spending because rates on mortgages and other loans are already just above record lows.
The bond purchases, and the Fed's signal that more help might be needed, pointed to just how weak the U.S. economy remains three years after the recession ended. The economy is still struggling to emerge from damage caused by the 2008 financial crisis — the worst since the Great Depression.
The Fed's plan raises questions about the limits of its own power. Even with its intervention, the Fed foresees unemployment remaining as high as a recession-level 6.8 percent as late as 2015.
Still, the Dow Jones industrial average shot up more than 200 points Thursday, reaching its highest point since the start of the Great Recession nearly five years ago. The Dow is now within 625 points of its all-time high.
It ended the day at 13,540.
The dollar fell. Oil prices topped $98 a barrel for the first time in four months. And gold climbed 2 percent to the highest level since February — $1,772 an ounce, a gain of $38.
In the face of persistently high unemployment and slow economic growth, the Fed said Thursday that it would:
— Buy $40 billion a month in mortgage bonds indefinitely to try to lower long-term interest rates, encourage home buying and get people to borrow and spend more. It's the Fed's third bond-buying program. If job growth doesn't improve much, the Fed will continue its bond purchases and take other steps.
— Likely keep its benchmark short-term rate at a record low near zero through at least mid-2015. That's six months longer than the Fed had previously planned.
— Probably hold interest rates low even well after the economic recovery has strengthened.
The mortgage bond purchases are unlikely to boost home sales much, even if they manage to lower mortgage rates further. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is already 3.55 percent, barely above the record low of 3.49 percent.
Home sales remain depressed in part because would-be buyers can't qualify for loans unless they have stellar credit or can produce hefty down payments.
"If you get a 2 percent mortgage but you've got to put 30 or 40 percent down, is that going to encourage people to buy a house?" says Doug Roberts, chief investment strategist at Channel Capital Research.
Still, Bernanke maintained that the Fed can help further, even with rates already ultra-low. He's argued that the Fed's first two rounds of bond purchases, in which it bought more than $2 trillion in bonds, saved 2 million jobs and accelerated growth.
By comparison, President Barack Obama's $862 billion stimulus program created nearly 2.7 million jobs, according a study by former Fed Vice Chairman Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.
At the same time, Bernanke cautioned that the Fed alone can't invigorate the economy. It needs help from Congress.
"Monetary policy, as I've said many times, is not a panacea," he said, referring to the Fed's handling of interest rates. "We're looking for policymakers in other areas to do their part."
Political bickering in Washington is chilling economic growth. If Democrats and Republicans can't reach a budget deal by year's end, $600 billion in spending cuts and tax hikes will kick in — a threat designed to force the two parties to compromise.
If they fail, the draconian measures would likely send the economy over a so-called fiscal cliff as the higher taxes and spending cuts took effect.
Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group, thinks the parties will reach a compromise after the election, avoid the fiscal cliff and give consumers and businesses confidence to spend more.
"Once you have greater clarity (about government policy), then I think people will take advantage of the lower interest-rate environment" engineered by the Fed, he says.
Baumohl predicts the economy will grow 3.2 percent next year, double what he expects for 2012. The Fed itself is less optimistic: It foresees growth of between 2.5 percent and 3 percent next year after growth of no more than 2 percent this year.
David Jones, chief economist at DMJ Advisors, says the Fed's action Thursday reflects its frustration over chronic high unemployment.
"The Fed is putting the pedal to the metal and pushing the accelerator down to the floor board," Jones says.
But he says the Fed is reaching a point of diminishing returns after nearly four years of aggressive efforts to help the economy. Its latest actions might trim a mere 0.1 percentage point from the unemployment rate over the next year and boost growth by a modest 0.2 percentage point, Jones says.
In the short term anyway, the economy might actually receive a bigger boost from Apple's new iPhone 5.
Michael Feroli, chief US economist at JPMorgan, calculated that the iPhone might add 0.25 to 0.5 percentage point to the annual growth rate in the last three months of 2012.
"I wouldn't be surprised" if the iPhone does more for the economy, Feroli said in an e-mail. "At the end of the day, economic growth is about producing more and better goods and services."


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"Foraging? I'll tell you what I don't spend time foraging for – bears, that's for sure."
"Bears are giant, marauding, godless killing machines."
"I hate watching TV nowadays, ya' know why? Because every time I see a camping commercial there is always a bear who happens upon the campers, and then guess what the retards do? They run! Don't the stupid commercial makers realize that you're never supposed to run from bears? We'll give chase, morons! You're supposed to play dead. Those stupid commercial makers are endangering thousands of lives with false information. Sheesh. Oh well. More food for me. "
The bear (pronounced bar or van buren without the van or -en, and a short "u" instead of a long one), is the common name for the mammal family Ursidae, the fancy Latin way of saying "bloated snuffling stinky wolf-thing." The bear is many things to many people: to those being mauled by one, it is a painful and deadly nuisance, and to those gawking at them safely behind a zoo enclosure, they are cute and slightly boring. To everyone, however, they are Godless killing machines.
Bears have been accused of being highly adaptable and not at all content to be a single, easily identifiable species. As such, bears of various shapes and sizes may be found on every continent except for Iceland, though if one is unlucky, Bjork can be found there at certain times. Recently, television journalist Stephen Colbert has been a vocal activist condemning bears for their questionable behavior towards humans. As of now, no bear(s) has denied the accusation of malevolence.
Bears live to forage, and forage to live, hence their motto:
"Get the hell out of my way, I'm foraging."
Experts agree it is highly advisable, whenever possible, to get the hell out of their way. Also, these same experts advise you to steer clear of Bjork, for though she does not forage, she is prone to acts of violence. While some experts disagree as to the extent of their intelligence, it is widely accepted that bears have no sense of justice, and no sense of mercy.
Types of Bears
To the dismay of ursinologists (those who study bears), there are many species of bears. The resulting extra paperwork makes their already terrible jobs all the more difficult, and many ursinologists crack under the considerable stress of monitoring, cataloguing and documenting what they irritably describe as "all the fucking bears."
Types of bear include, but are not limited to: black bears, brown bears, spectacled bears, contact-lens bears, average bears, red bears, pooh bears, grizzly bears, koala bears (which aren't really bears but frankly, not even ursinologists care), unicycle-riding bears, Yogi bears, polar bears, care bears, panda bears and teddy bears. While some of these types are not "real" in the sense of being children's toys or animated cartoons, ursinologists admit that they've probably chosen the wrong field of study, and why don't you just lay off about the damn bears for a goddamned moment.
Bears are noted loners, and often amass unnecessary stockpiles of firearms for the day of reckoning. When not stockpiling firearms, bears devote a great deal of time to foraging for food, foraging for toilet paper, and foraging just for the sake of foraging.
Famous ursinologist Terry "Tom" I Can't Think of a Surname, in his out-of-print 1987 masterwork Bears: More Interested in Foraging Than You Might Think, says "[Bears] live to forage. And, they live by foraging. Without foraging, bears would not be able to stay alive, and therefore not be able to forage. Bears forage, so they can find things to eat, so they can continue to forage. It's a vicious cycle, really, but it's safe to say they enjoy the foraging. A lot."
Trouble tends to occur when bears are interrupted in their foraging by humans. Though much is made of the axiom "never come across a bear and her cubs", this is merely a misinterpretation of the bear's fury of having its foraging interrupted. Bears, like most other animals, couldn't give a shit in the woods if their offspring are harassed by humans.
They do care deeply about being deprived of one second of rooting their muzzle across the ground for some bit of edible crap, so whatever you do, don't interrupt a foraging bear. The following is an excerpt from The Bear Facts, a survival guide for encountering bears in the wild:
I've interrupted a foraging bear! What do I do?
Whatever you do, don't interrupt the bear's foraging.
It's too late! I've already interrupted him!
Oh, really? Wow. I mean, damn. You're fucked.
Can I play dead? Will that help?
Dude, sure, go ahead, but that's going to be one pissed off bear you've got on your hands. You'll be lucky to be horribly mauled.
Ahhhh! Aggggh! AAAAAAAAA!
Sorry, dude. I hope you prepared your will.
Bears are masters of cryogenics, and place themselves in suspended animation in specially-designed bear storage chambers once every year when they get burned out on foraging. But the respite is really only a physical reality: the brainwaves of cryogenically hibernating bears reveal they are in fact dreaming about foraging as they sleep. Oddly, if not for the self-imposed hibernation, bears would never sleep.
Thus the question "what goes bump in the night?" can easily be answered with "a foraging bear."
Once they come out of hibernation, foraging begins anew. There is conjecture that the only thing worse than coming between a foraging bear and its foraging is coming between a bear leaving cryogenic stasis ready for nine months of non-stop foraging and its foraging. It is not uncommon for a post-hibernative bear to not simply maul the disturber of its foraging, but take the disturber to an undisclosed location in Eastern Europe and torture the hell out of them. Bears enjoy torture, and they are not bound by the Geneva Convention.
Bears are omnivores, and therefore will eat anything. Bears do show strong preferences for certain foodstuffs, especially Moon Pies. Bears do not often find Moon Pies whilst foraging, and so must make due with grubs, berries, discarded McDonald's, Styrofoam, used bandages, sticks, leaves, beetles, bird carcasses, Goldilocks, mayonnaise, dirt, stock-market bulls, pic-a-nic baskets, and people.
Not always content with foraged leavings, bears are also accomplished hunters, occasionally bringing down big game with their firearms. It is for this reason that bears remain popular and alluring targets for human hunters in search of a thrill: most deer, for example, are not armed, and quarry that returns fire adds a rush to a typical hunt. Bears prefer machete powered desert eagles, choosing to bring down large game in a hail of large knives and then finish the job up close and "execution" style.
A widely-circulated clip of a grizzly bear killing an elk caused an internet sensation in late 2003. Though the camera work is shaky, the chilling display of the bears' ruthlessness before finishing off the elk is a testament to the foul nature of the bear:
ELK - (prostrate, struggling to breathe) F– fuck you, bear!
BEAR – (cocks AR-15 rifle, looks back at camera and smiles) What do you think, Jerry?
JERRY – (off camera) Pop him, dude.
ELK – Goddamn you both!
BEAR – Do you believe in God, Bambi?
ELK – (wheezing, coughing up blood) Do it!
BEAR – (pokes elk with rifle) Do ya, Bambi? Huh?
ELK - Get it over with! Damn you!
JERRY - (off camera) Pop him, dude!
The above clip is contained in When Bears Attack and can be purchased for only $19.99 USD on either one DVD or two VHS tapes at your local on-line e-tailer. They make great gifts for any holiday season, especially Valentine's Day!
Mating and Rearing Young, Hopefully Not at the Same Time
Bears mate infrequently, as it gets in the way of foraging. Some enterprising bears actually mate and forage at the same time, though this is frowned upon by the Church as combining work and pleasure in ways they were never meant to be combined.
Bears gestate anywhere from eight days to two years, depending on what type of bear you're talking about. What bear gestates for eight days, you ask? How about a magical bear I just made up, genius? Yep, a magical eight-days-gestating bear. Jesus, you're gullible.
Bears give birth to from none to three offspring, but since most bears only have six teats, the third cub is ritually sacrificed to the bear God, Ursus Maximus. However, bears are squeamish about sacrifice, and often give third cubs to wolves, who are renowned for their ability to raise the offspring of largely incompatible species, such as humans. But, since bears are essentially bloated wolves, wolves have a tough time of raising bear cubs. Bears raised to adulthood by wolves are especially embittered and work long and hard on their diaries and collections of poetry.
Cubs that are raised by actual bears must keep up with their mother. They must attempt to suckle as she forages, which is difficult and extremely funny to watch.
Young bears stay with their mothers for approximately 723 days, no more, no less, learning how to forage, the secrets of cryogenic sleep, and how to forage. On the 723rd day, they receive an honorary Bear Associate (B.A.) degree and a complimentary Moon Pie and are booted out the door.
The Baffling Paradox of Fuzzy Wuzzy
Mongolian legends do tell of a bear no ursinologist dare speak of, except those that choose to do so. These ursinologists - all named Ted - have been shunned by the rest of their bear-studying peers for their views of the bear in those Mongolian legends I mentioned previously. As the first sentence in this paragraph said (and I then referenced), no ursinologist dare speak of them, but we at Uncyclopedia are no ursinologists. Except maybe this guy, but then again.
The legend states:
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, but
Fuzzy Wuzzy didn't care, 'cause
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very Fuzzy.
Various Teds have noted that to date, no actual Fuzzy Wuzzy has been found, but their search for a hairless, indifferent bear will not be halted by their well-to-do, "educated" peers. Those poor Teds, especially Ted Kilcommons. He thought he could find God by hibernating with some bears, forgetting perhaps humans cannot hibernate, or that God totally avoids bears except in extreme circumstances. Poor Ted.
Bears and movies
According to a well known Brazilian film critic, bears play a fundamental part on movies. A formula for a good movie comprises at least one bear, two (possibly homosexual) farmers, and Jennifer Lopez (pronounced Yen-Efur Low-pez)
- When Bears Attack, a BBC documentary
See also
"A well-regulated ursine militia being necessary to the security of Soviet Russia, the right of the proletariat to keep and arm bears shall not be infringed."
- Arms
- Beer
- Teddy Bear
- Bear patrol
- Brown University
- Is the bear a Catholic?
- Does the pope shit in the woods?
- Ursine Soviet Systematic Repression
- Paddington Blair
- Baylor University
- Beercan
- Marmot
- Bearbaiting
- Beararchy
- Bear Wrestling
- Polar bear
- Bipolar bear


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Healthy Living Practices That You Can Do On Your Own
Healthy living is one of the most common words used when it comes to overall fitness, but one of the least understood. It is often heard everywhere, but many people do not know what it really means. There are many factors that affect the overall well-being of an individual like age or heredity, but you can boost your health by promoting a better lifestyle. Generally, it means maintaining a healthy weight, avoiding alcohol and tobacco, eating right and having a regular exercise. By taking the right steps, you can substantially reduce your chances of getting cancer, heart diseases and other serious conditions. Even small changes in your lifestyle such as taking an extra glass of water everyday can do much to improve your health.
The most important components of healthy living are the following: · Healthy and nutritious diet · Regular exercise · Good social life · Positive outlook in life · Adequate rest and relaxation · Healthy relationship
Tips for Promoting a Healthier Lifestyle -
High Fiber Diet One of the first things you should do in promoting better health is to eat a diet that is full of fibers. Take away all the bad carbohydrates off your diet and replace them with good carbohydrates. You should also include a variety of fruits and vegetables in your regular food intake, as well as whole grains and other foods that are high in fiber. Glycemic foods should likewise be eliminated from your daily diet.
Take Plenty of Water If you are used to taking other kinds of drinks, you should begin replacing them with pure water. It is essential in promoting healthy living since it aids in the digestion of food, elimination of toxins that are harmful to your body and absorption of nutrients. Make it a point to take eight glasses of water each day.
Have enough Physical Activity If you want to maintain better health, start having a regular physical activity, taking care to avoid any injuries. Training with weights and walking briskly everyday are more sensible than high impact workouts since they do not subject your body to unnecessary stress that can do more harm than good.
Maintain your Ideal Weight An ideal weight is essential in healthy living, but it does not mean that you will have to go into diet pills or fad diets. Many of them can actually do your body more harm than good and therefore not recommended for promoting better health. Focus on a healthy diet and active lifestyle instead for keeping your weight down.
Be Optimistic and Positive All the Time Your attitude is a key factor in promoting better health. It is a force that drives you to continue changing for the better and maintaining the self-discipline that is important for a healthy lifestyle. There will always be obstacles in your endeavor, but remember; you are as happy as you think you are. So make a decision to be happy and have a grateful and optimistic view of the future. If you still have bad health habits such as smoking, excessive caffeine intake and other practices that are detrimental to healthy living, start replacing them with healthy input so that all your efforts will not be in vain.
I hope that you found this information useful and if you would like more information on ways to live healthy, then please visit my eating healthy web site where you will find great information to help you live a long and healthy life.
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Established | 1929 |
Capacity | 12,000 |
Playing area | 179 m long, 150 m wide |
End Names | Pool End, Mall End |
Flood Lights | Yes, Installed in 2012 |
Home Teams | Australian Capital Territory, Prime Minister's XI |
Other Sports | Australian Rules Football |
Curator | Brad van Dam |
Current Local Time | 14:38, Sun Mar 03, 2024 |
It was Robert Menzies who instigated the first PM's XI match against the touring MCC side from England in 1954/55, the fixture lapsing after his retirement as prime minister in 1966, until former Oxford University player Bob Hawke resurrected it in 1983/84. The ground has been the scene of occasional first-class fixtures as a home venue for New South Wales, the first of these in 1978/79 when the SCG was in unsuitable condition.
Manuka Oval was the venue of the World Cup match between South Africa and Zimbabwe in 1992, and became a regular venue for major limited-over cricket with the birth of the Canberra Comets in 1997/98. The venue hosted a CB Series match between India and Sri Lanka in 2008, marking a return to international cricket after 16 years. Floodlights were installed in time for the 2012/13 summer, and were used for the PM's XI game and also an ODI between Australia and the West Indies - the first time the home team had played in the nation's capital.
One of the features of the ground is the Jack Fingleton Scoreboard. This was originally the scoreboard at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, recycled when the MCG installed its first electronic board in the early 1980's. It was relocated to Manuka and named after the late Australian opening batsman who made his career as a political journalist in the corridors of Parliament House, just a few kilometres away.
Cricinfo Staff February 2013


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NASA'S KEPLER TELESCOPE is broken, potentially jeopardising the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system.
If engineers can't find a fix, the failure could mean an end to the $600 million mission's search, although the space agency wasn't ready to call it quits yesterday. The telescope has discovered scores of planets but only two so far are the best candidates for habitable planets.
"I wouldn't call Kepler down-and-out just yet," said NASA sciences chief John Grunsfeld.
Lost wheels
NASA said the spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control its orientation in space. With only two working wheels left, it can't point at stars with the same precision.
In orbit around the sun, 40 million miles from Earth, Kepler is too far away to send astronauts on a repair mission like the way Grunsfeld and others fixed a mirror on the Hubble Space Telescope. Over the next several weeks, engineers on the ground will try to restart Kepler's faulty wheel or find a workaround. The telescope could be used for other purposes even if it can no longer track down planets.
Kepler was launched in 2009 in search of Earth-like planets. So far, it has confirmed 132 planets and spotted more than 2,700 potential ones. Its mission was supposed to be over by now, but last year, NASA agreed to keep Kepler running through 2016 at a cost of about $20 million a year.
Planets where life could flourish
Just last month, Kepler scientists announced the discovery of a distant duo that seems like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. The other planets found by Kepler haven't fit all the criteria that would make them right for life of any kind — from microbes to man.
While ground telescopes can hunt for planets outside our solar system, Kepler is much more advanced and is the first space mission dedicated to that goal.
For the past four years, Kepler has focused its telescope on a faraway patch of the Milky Way hosting more than 150,000 stars, recording slight dips in brightness — a sign of a planet passing in front of the star.
Now "we can't point where we need to point. We can't gather data," said the deputy project manager Charles Sobeck.
Scientists said there's a backlog of data that they still need to analyze even if Kepler stopped looking for planets.
"I think the most interesting, exciting discoveries are coming in the next two years. The mission is not over," said chief scientist William Borucki at the NASA Ames Research Center in Northern California, which manages the mission.
The "Goldilocks zone"
Scientists who have no role in the Kepler mission mourned the news. They said the latest loss means the spacecraft may not be able to determine how many Earth-size planets are in the "Goldilocks zone" where it's not too hot or too cold for water to exist in liquid form on the surface. And while they praised the data collected by Kepler so far, they said several more years of observations are needed to nail down that number.
"This is one of the saddest days in my life. A crippled Kepler may be able to do other things, but it cannot do the one thing it was designed to do," Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who is not part of the Kepler team, said in an email.
In 2017, NASA plans to launch TESS — Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — designed to search for planets around nearby stars.
Billion-year-old water discovered in Canada could give clues to early life on Earth>
Hello, spaceman: Commander Hadfield is back on earth>
Is that Ireland under all that weather?>


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We launched Man Up Texas BBQ back in August 2008, so this was our first full calendar year - and it was a great one! I'm pretty sure that even some Man Uppers wouldn't have expected this experiment to be around - much less growing - after almost a year and a half, but here we are. Soooooo, you'd better recognize. Or not. That's fine, too. Regardless, a look back at 2009 is in order. I don't want to bore you with a long, mechanically-sound narrative, so here are the highlights. We...
Had BBQ at 51 different places (several more than once), including 39 we'd never visited (at least not for the blog)
Handed out Best of 2008 awards
Entered into the wild-and-wooly fray that is social media. We're on Twitter, have a Facebook group, and created a Texas BBQ group on Ning.
Took part in the 1st annual BBQ Bowl
Saw 2 couples in our crew get hitched and a 3rd get engaged - soooo, strictly going on percentages, if you're single and don't want to be, you should probably join us
Got business cards
Started selling merchandise
Starting linking reviews to Urbanspoon
Added 5 new blog features: Q&A, Texas BBQ Wannabes, Question of the Day, Polls, and Reader Reviews
In conjunction with our outings, we saw a Cory Morrow show, toured the Shiner brewery and a sausage factory, took a dip in Hamilton Pool, saw some Texas high school championship football games, hit up several cigar lounges, and celebrated some birthdays
Posted our third installment of BBQ 101
Smoked a brisket and blogged about it throughout the day
Smoked a second and third brisket and streamed it live on the internet
Ventured outside of Texas and had BBQ in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Germany, Russia, Brazil, and Argentina
Held 3 new rounds of Battle BBQ
Launched our first Texas BBQ Giveaway
Sincerest thanks to everyone who follows us. It was a fantastic year, and we expect 2010 to be even better. We've got some cool things in the works, so we hope you'll stay with us. From all of us at Man Up Texas BBQ, very best wishes for the new year!
Friday, January 1, 2010
3 comments:
- Natanya said...
Your blog is new to me but I'm very excited that I found it. Based on your list adventures, it sounds like there is much fun and good eating to be had by following your blog. I hope that 2010 treats you well and hopefully we can connect at one of the local Austin food blogger events.
- January 1, 2010 at 10:58 AM
- RP said...
- January 1, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- Leona said...
Ok. When I first heard you guys were going to do this in '08, I thought you were crazy to find an excuse to eat so much BBQ. I'm rather impressed that this expanded as it did.
- January 11, 2010 at 9:50 AM
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Green Lantern / graphite on paper / 2012 |
With this new book of graphite illustrations, I now have three different volumes of my work included in Brooklyn Art Library's permanent collection. Patrons can sit down and flip through literally thousands of sketchbooks from artists living at all corners of the globe. My previous submissions were much more lowbrow where I went through and covered the books in a plethora of wild imagery with my trusty markers. This year, I decided to take a more tradition route and do actual sketches with only pencil. In my everyday illustration, I generally do preliminary sketches but don't build them up much, only using it as a guide for my inked linework. Each of the 14 comic characters took about 2-3 hours each to get them where I wanted them using only the medium of a mechanical pencil.
Thanos / graphite on paper / 2012 |
Daredevil / graphite on paper / 2012 |
The Heroes and Villains sketchbook will go on a World Tour before finding a permanent home on the shelves of the Brooklyn Art Library. Cities hosting the tour include Chicago, Portland (Oregon AND Maine,) Philadelphia, Atlanta, Austin, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The book will travel internationally also to Vancouver and Toronto in Canada, Melbourne in Austalia and London, England. Click HERE for the official calendar to see where you can catch the tour LIVE and in person! Can't make it in person? Check out this video of the entire book!


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Discover Stockton Lake
Stockton lake is one of Missouri's premiere Walleye fisheries. It also holds an abundance of Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass as well as a fine population of catfish and crappie. Managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Missouri Department of Parks and Historic Preservation, this 25,000+ acre lake with 300 miles of public shoreline is home to an abundance of wildlife. There are more than a dozen campgrounds around the lake, all of which are well designed and maintained. Stockton Lake is 51 miles away from Springfield, 136 miles away from Kansas City, and 269 miles away from St. Louis.
Thompson Fishing Guide Service
Thompson Fishing Guide Service is a full time, family owned and operated guide service. We are dedicated to providing first class, fully outfitted fishing trips tailored to each client's skill level and experience. We are fully insured with commercial guide insurance and we take pride in our excellent customer service and quality equipment. Whether you want to learn the lake, learn how to effectively fish for various species, or just relax and let someone else bait your hook, treat yourself or someone you love to a fun day on the lake!
To book a trip give us a call or send us an email.
Contact Information:
Guide: Marty Thompson
Phone #: (417)424-BASS
E-Mail: Thompson Fishing Guide Service